Trauma unfolding overseas now 6th hour. Egypt air flight hijacked flying from alexandria to cairo with hijacker forcing to nrand cypress. Its egyptian citizen hey jac jacker from alexandria egypt seeking political asylum. Right now the civil air minister said four passengers and several crew members are on board. Its unclear if americans are held or released. Egypt president said this is not terror related incident. Overnight townhouse fire in Montgomery County force twod families to look for new place to live. Jennifer davis joins us live with details on the story, good morning, jen. Good morning, guys, okay. Lets start with good news which is everybody got out safely with the help of firefighters. Thats the big deal. Because this happened in middle of the night when people were sound a sleep and smoke detectors did not go off. It started with those smoke detectors in the attic. Luckily somebody in this house heard what was happening and neighborhoods called 911 as well. You can see t
Ackland and im Marina Maracco in for lauren. Those winds tore down trees and power lines leaving thousands without power throughout the night. Fortunately only one person was seriously hurt. Hur one thing that wont improvempr right away is the weather. We have Team Coverage tonight,og Jennifer Davis is in springfield, virginia with one womans amazing survival story. We begin in the Weather Center with gwen tolbart with the latest. Last night we talked about the fact that we had a high wind warning. The winds were exceptionally we strong. Lets take a look at some of our neighborhoods and what did happened. 66 at dulles and 49 at bwiwi thurgood marshal, montgomery county, 58mile per hour wind gusts, 63 Fairfax County and 59 in prince georges county. And am of our counties in the same numbers in terms of those wind gusts so knew that that was going to be happening and that that wind warning definitely was one thatn definitely came true. Rue. So temperatures, we had dippingg temperatures.
Surgery, condition at this hour, we dont know, but we do know that Us Capitol Police did have this man on their radar, as far as who he is, theyll not publicly identify him just yet. But inside the capitol complex, inside the Visitors Center, there were hundreds of people to go, movies going on in the theatres inside the visitor complex, and some people reporting they heard the gunshot. And we heard from witness that is there were reportedly just two shots, and thats why there would be conflict willing reports, because depending where youre standing in that visitors complex, fairly large, you may have heard them or not. But what they did hear was shear panic from those around them, at that point, it seems like by all accounts, Us Capitol Police ability dollars extremely quickly, gathered everyone they corks managed to put everyone inside the theater rooms, and it was there where they sheltered in place for about 20 minutes, until they know that the threat at that point was neutralized
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Right now at then a lightening strike sparks a fire during a storm tonight. Thats just the beginning of what will be a wild weather weekend. Alexandria first homicide ofs the engineer a murder mystery ie old town. Tow were live with new details. A big announcement is plannem for the area around rfk stadium. We got a sneak peek of what to expect. News starts right now. Thanks for joining us wes begin tonight with breaking news in arlington three people havepp been stabbed one person taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Police are searching nor multiple suspect. We have a reporter heading to the scene. Im tony perkins. Im Sarah Simmons in for shawn. Hope you enjoyed the weather. Through tonight. Take a look at this video from o the montgomery fire department. Were told a lightening strikee during a storm hit power linesle and sparked a fire in potomac. Luckily no Property Damage or injuries. Questions what can we expect for the rester of the weekend. R gwenof tolbert is h